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Thursday, 8 January 2015

A lesson plan on Globalization

A new year has just begun and I know that
all of us are eager to fill it in with new hopes, projects and illusion in our
personal and professional environments.

My humble contribution at the start of this year will be a lesson plan I
have developed for Secondary 3 and 4 level students on the topic of
Globalization.

Although this topic can be included both in Geography and
Citizenship content areas, I reckon that the proposal I offer might be
just an introduction to the topic in a Geography class but a complete
sequence in Citizenship.

CLIL practice is much more effective when
coordination between the language teacher and the subject teacher takes place
so this lesson plan would work much better if this coordination took place and
the English language teacher could present the basic vocabulary and language (mainly contrast clauses, language for
expressing opinions and language and
structure of an opinion essay)

In case coordination between the subject teacher and the English
language teacher is not possible, I have added some language support for
the students and for the subject teacher who might need it.

Regarding the focus on language, I have tried to choose some activities
that help students with differences that are basic in any content area and not
only in Citizenship or Geography: language that is used to express facts
versus language that is used to express opinions, language that shows
certainty and language that shows uncertainty; language that conveys caution; language
for generalizations; language for contrast.

You can read the whole lesson plan and find all handouts for you and for
the studentshere.

I hope you will find my proposal useful. We will talk about it in our
next seminar session together.